CUNNINGHAM CO-CONSPIRATOR HAD LINKS TO IRAN GROUP, PAID BY WHITE HOUSE:
TPM Muckracker notes that in 2004, the White House was doling out money to
Mitchell Wade -- who has pled guilty as Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's
co-conspirator and faces several years in prison -- for an Iran
regime-change organization.
Wade, former head of MZM, Inc., "registered as the 'registered agent' for an
outfit called the 'Iranian Democratization Foundation'" on April 5, 2004.
Records show that the Executive Office of the President paid out three
contracts worth $254,437 for unspecified "intelligence services" to MZM,
Inc. in 2004. The White House has refused to comment on these contracts and
TPM notes that "a cursory check has turned up no other filings for Wade's
nonprofit: no employer ID number, 990 filing, or anything else. Nexis shows
no mention of the group in any news coverage."
Roll Call reports that the Defense Department missed its chance to
"forestall one of the worst bribery cases ever involving a sitting Member of
Congress" in 2000, when it began a criminal investigation into the former
congressman's co-conspirator #1, defense contractor Brent Wilkes. The U.S.
attorney's office in San Diego decided not to bring charges in the 2000
case.
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Scratch a Republican and out comes a traitor.
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